Sunday, 5 March 2017
Photos: 11-year-old boy brutally assaulted and thrown out onto the streets by stepmother in Lagos
According to Chinyere Itesi, she went to the woman's house with a team of police earlier today and had her arrested. She initially resisted arrest and was on the verge of tears. See photos of the Ms Itesi, the officer attending to them, suspect, and the victim, his sister and uncle at the police station after the cut..
UK Guardian newspaper claims former President Jonathan rejected UK's offer to rescue abducted Chibok schoolgirls
According to a reportby the Guardian UK, the Goodluck Jonathan administration welcomed an aid package and assistance from the US, the UK and France in looking for the girls but viewed any action to be taken against kidnapping as a “national issue”. Read the UK Guardian report after the cut...
British armed forces offered to attempt to rescue nearly 300 Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped by the Islamist militant group Boko Haram, but were rebuffed by Goodluck Jonathan, Nigeria’s president at the time, the Observer has learned.
In a mission named Operation Turus, the RAF conducted air reconnaissance over northern Nigeria for several months, following the kidnapping of 276 girls from the town of Chibok in April 2014. “The girls were located in the first few weeks of the RAF mission,” a source involved in Operation Turus told the Observer. “We offered to rescue them, but the Nigerian government declined.”
The girls were then tracked by the aircraft as they were dispersed into progressively smaller groups over the following months, the source added. Chibok is located in Nigeria’s north-eastern Borno state. Today 195 of the girls are still missing.
Those who have managed to escape from their kidnappers have told of a life of torture, enslavement, rape, and forced marriages in captivity. Notes from meetings between UK and Nigerian officials, obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, also suggest that Nigeria shunned international offers to rescue the girls.
While Nigeria welcomed an aid package and assistance from the US, the UK and France in looking for the girls, it viewed any action to be taken against kidnapping as a “national issue”.
“Nigeria’s intelligence and military services must solve the ultimate problem,” said Jonathan in a meeting with the UK’s then Africa minister, Mark Simmonds, on 15 May 2014. A document summarising a meeting in Abuja in September 2014 between Nigeria’s national security adviser and James Duddridge MP, former under-secretary of state at the Foreign Office, shows Operation Turus had advanced to the point where rescue options were being discussed.
Minutes from a meeting the following month between Major-General James Chiswell and Jonathan hinted at the frustration felt by those trying to prompt some action from Nigeria. “[President] Jonathan was still focused on ‘platforms’.
General Chiswell said again we could offer advice on what equipment might make sense and how weapon systems might be best deployed,” the October 2014 document stated. The Nigerian government did not respond to a request for comment.
The Foreign Office said: “We wouldn’t comment on specific operational details, which are a matter for the Nigerian government and military.” Jonathan has drawn criticism at home and abroad for a lack of action and perceived apathy over the kidnappings. The government was slow to mount any response in the weeks after the girls were taken.
The governor of Borno, Kashim Shettima, also publicly criticised Jonathan for failing to even call him or any other state official for 19 days after the kidnappings. Jonathan also hit out at theworldwide #BringBackOurGirls campaign, branding it a “manipulation” of the victims of the attack. Boko Haram had raided the dormitories of the government secondary school at Chibok.
The girls staying there had braved warnings of an attack to sit their final examinations. Boko Haram looted the school and then burned it to the ground. The kidnappings also blighted the lives of the girls from the town who were not taken away, as many have been too scared to continue their education. In addition to Nigeria, Boko Haram is active in regions of Cameroon, Chad and Niger.
According to Unicef, more than 1.3 million children have now been displaced. Some of those taken by Boko Haram have been forced to become child soldiers: one in five suicide bombers in Nigeria are believed to be children, and three-quarters of those are girls.
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Photo: Police in Ebonyi exhume body of woman killed by suspected kidnappers, one of whom had done internship in her son's firm
The deceased who is the mother of a rich Abuja-based industrialist and indigene of Ishiagu community in Ivo Council of Ebonyi State, was abducted at her residence.
She was killed by one of the kidnappers who recognized her because he had previously done his internship at her son's firm in Abuja.
Investigations by the Special Anti-Kidnapping Squad (SAKS), Ebonyi State Police Command, Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) and other corresponding units of the Command, led to the arrest of one Ogbujule Chukwu Mathew of Lokpanta, Isuochi in Ummunneochi Council of Abia State, who confessed that they abducted the woman and killed her to conceal their evil act.
Spokesperson of the command, Jude Madu in an interview with The Guardian said
“Mathew made some confessionary statement, which led to the arrest of one Ezenwa Egeonu, male, of same address on February 23. On interrogation, the said Ezenwa confessed that the victim has been killed by the gang and was buried at Lokpanta, Isuochi in Abia State. He led a team of anti-kidnapping squad of this Command to the scene where the body was buried. The area has been identified, that was why the Command made adequate arrangements for the exhumation of the body. He took our men there and instead of showing the exact spot, he started taking the Police round that vast bush until the early morning of Sunday, when he said his time was up and he was then ready to talk. He then took our men to the exact spot where they buried the woman".The suspect, Mathew, led a team of 50 policemen, 15 Hilux vans of various units of the Command, an ambulance, morticians, Head of Pathology Department, Federal Teaching Hospital, Abakaliki, on a 10 hour journey to the shallow grave.
At the scene, the police brought in four other suspects that were arrested in connection with the kidnap and murder.
Speaking at the shallow grave side, Mathew said
“That pally (pointing at one of the suspects) carry us come here, me and Pilot. We be three, Mathew (the ring leader) four and that Ampelo. We dey six in number. Na that Ampelo (from Ishiagu) say make we kill am. En say because mama (the victim) don see him face, make we kill am. I tell them say make them no kpai mama. The man come slap me for back. Na en the other guy (Chibuike, the gang leader) say him go shoot me. I tell dem say this thing wey dem wan do mama no dey good. Na en dem come tell me say make I comot. I come go up there go sit down (pointing to a hilly side of the shallow river). As I come sit down there, I come hear kpowai. I dey like this (pointing his head to the ground). Pilot come ask me whether I dey cry? I tell am say I dey cry. I tell am say this thing wey una do, before next week now, una go hear am. Na im I come carry my machine (motorcycle) go back”.According to Mathew, himself and his gang members had tried to escape Police search by hiding the woman at the backyard of his compound in Amaekwuru village, Isuochi in Lokpanta for several hours but had to escape into the forest when they got information that the Police were on their trail, where the victim was later shot dead on the orders of the said Ampelo, who told the gang that he did internship in Abuja through the help of the victim’s son and she had already seen his face; hence they should not spare her life or they would all be in danger.
The exhumed body of the victim was deposited at the Federal Teaching Hospital Mortuary, Abakaliki (FETHA) mortuary for autopsy.
The police spokesperson say further investigation into the matter is ongoing.
“We have taken the body for autopsy. The result of the autopsy will determine our next line of action. We want to find out if they killed the woman with bullet or poison or any other means, even though one of the suspects confessed at the scene that one of them shot the woman. After the autopsy, we shall also update the public. There are some other persons who are not among the six, but they also contributed in one way or the other to aid this crime. Though I may not give you the exact number for now, but others, such as their native doctor, is already in our net. One of the girlfriends of Umoru, who had helped him to escape the very first time, is also in our custody. Investigations are ongoing and the Police is assuring the family and the public that it will get to the end of it all,” he said
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Polish politician says "Women must earn less than men because they are weaker, smaller and less intelligent"
The European Parliament has launched a hate speech
investigation into a Polish politician after he stated that "women must
earn less than men, because they are weaker, they are smaller, they are
less intelligent" during a debate this week on the gender pay gap.
The
politician Janusz Korwin-Mikke is an independent member of the European
Parliament wh has previously said that women should not be allowed to
vote and was investigated for incitement to rape in 2014 over remarks he
made to the European Parliament.
Outraged by his comments Wednesday,
another parliamentary member, Iratxe Garcia Perez of the Spanish
Socialist Workers' Party, launched a forceful counterattack saying "I
know it hurts and worries you that today women can sit in this house and
represent European citizens with the same rights as you. I am here to
defend all European women from men like you."
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